Bear killed entering homestead in Yakutian village

Sept 02 2013

RBTH

Interfax

Head of the hunting department of Yakutia Nikolai Smetanin told Interfax on Monday that a bear roamed into a homestead in the village of Alekyu-Kyuel in the Srednekolymsky district on Saturday while the family was celebrating a child's birthday. One of the women noticed the beast, which was shot dead the same day.

Bears are attacking homesteads in the Srednekolymsk district of Yakutia.

Head of the hunting department of Yakutia Nikolai Smetanin told Interfax on Monday that a bear roamed into a homestead in the village of Alekyu-Kyuel in the Srednekolymsky district on Saturday while the family was celebrating a child's birthday. One of the women noticed the beast, which was shot dead the same day.

"Three bears have been killed in different villages in the district during the past month. More often the animals wander to the roads where cafes stand," the official said.